I've been using my A2 Aviator (white LEDs) quite extensively in the past month or so, i can't reccomend this light highly enough, yes it's expensive, the most expensive light in my arsenal, but i've found that it's well worth the money....
tonight, we finalized moving our store from Dover NH to Portsmouth NH, i was back at the old Dover store helping the boss take down the sign hanging outside the store...
here's an old pic from the '06 Mothers Day Flood in Dover NH (notice how full the Cocheco River is in the background)
it was 8:45 PM and quite dark out, it was also lightly raining and a mist was in the air, as you can see in the linked pic, the hardware hanging the sign is black, so taking the sign down (unscrewing the C-Bolts holding it up, also black) at night is a bit of a challenge
i stood on the loading dock and shone my A2 on high at the c-clamps, it lit them up very well, making unscrewing them easy, the A2's Incan beam lit up the black wrought-iron frame and black painted steel clamp bolts easily
on the second one, i switched to my G2 with 3W G&P LED lamp ***'y, the white part of the sign was lit up well, but what LED light that wasn't scattered by the rain and mist in the air was simply soaked up by the black iron framing, so i went back to the A2, the A2 easily lit up the iron framing, making taking the sign down a breeze
before we left, the boss was searching for some keys in one of his small, crowded, disorganized duffel bags on the loading dock, the A2's LEDs put out just the *perfect* amount of light for him to quickly find the keys, the incan or even the 3 watt G&P would have been overkill, the soft, wide flood of the A2 LEDs were perfect for this task
every day i find more and more uses for the A2, it really and truly is a great, if underappreciated, light, the LED's are perfect for 90% of my use, and whenever i need a powerful incan beam to stab into the night, it's a half-press of the tailcap away, and thanks to the A2's regulated output, the bright white incan beam will not yellow as it ages
if you can afford it, why not get the A2, it solves your problem completely, you can have LED *AND* incan in one light